You just learned that your school is closing due to COVID-19. Your school district may be only kinda sorta prepared to support you. This is a practical guide for getting started with links to educational resources, online tutors, supplementary educational materials and more.
Global Classroom Stories & Launch (#GlobalEd12)Michael Graffin
The Global Classroom Project is envisaged as an online education community where teachers and students can connect, share, learn and collaborate on a global stage.
Over the course of the past two years, this vision has been brought to life by a team of dedicated educators around the world.
In the course of 2011-12, we hosted over 15 major global projects, and saw our education network grow to include over 300 teachers, and several thousand students. Our project blog and wiki have become vibrant spaces for sharing teachers’ global projects, and our Facebook and Skype groups have proved to be extremely valuable spaces for teachers to connect, and build global friendships.
This presentation hosted several major project announcements, and marked the official launch of Global Classroom 2012-13.
Global Classroom 2011-12: Looking Forwards, Looking BackMichael Graffin
The slides and recording links for the Global Classroom Project (2011-12) Closing Webinar.
Our next project launches in late September 2012. Please visit our blog (http://theglobalclassroomproject.wordpress.com) for more information.
NCompass Live - March 18, 2020
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/
Library camps provide us with opportunities to make meaningful connections with teens during the months when they are most difficult to reach. In previous years, teen program attendance was extremely low, reaching less than fifty teens. It was time to make a change. Cedar Rapids Public Library offered free teen camps for ages 12 to 18 at both of our library locations and offsite with residential facilities, providing access by removing barriers financially and physically. Focused on creativity, teamwork, and fun, our project based learning camps covered subjects from writing to making escape rooms. Each camp is unique in its theme, but the implementation is similar for each. Teamwork and social skills layered with fun activities and productivity allow for dual purpose learning. While exploring and designing, teens were also learning communication skills, cooperation, and problem solving techniques. Library camps allowed teens freedom to create and share. Teens left camp feeling accomplished and excited about their work. Librarians left knowing teens achieved more than a digital trophy.
This session will focus on our findings from the past three years, how the camps were created and how we’ve adapted. We will discuss ways to scale the camps to best fit in your libraries. During the session, we will look at team building exercises the campers went through and the collaborative processes put in place to encourage teamwork. You will have a chance to view completed projects from the teens, including their board games and escape rooms. We will discuss the benefits of immersive learning, with teens leading as innovators. It’s time for teen programs to be more responsive and uncover teens’ potential as creators, inventors, and collaborators. Challenge traditional summer programming for teens!
Presenter: Molly Garrett, Librarian, Cedar Rapids (IA) Public Library.
Working in the Global Classroom: A Guide to Connecting & Collaborating Global...Michael Graffin
Presentation by Michael Graffin (@mgraffin) and Nigel Mitchell (@1nbm) at the Australian Computers in Education Conference, held in Perth Western Australia (October 1-3, 2012)
You just learned that your school is closing due to COVID-19. Your school district may be only kinda sorta prepared to support you. This is a practical guide for getting started with links to educational resources, online tutors, supplementary educational materials and more.
Global Classroom Stories & Launch (#GlobalEd12)Michael Graffin
The Global Classroom Project is envisaged as an online education community where teachers and students can connect, share, learn and collaborate on a global stage.
Over the course of the past two years, this vision has been brought to life by a team of dedicated educators around the world.
In the course of 2011-12, we hosted over 15 major global projects, and saw our education network grow to include over 300 teachers, and several thousand students. Our project blog and wiki have become vibrant spaces for sharing teachers’ global projects, and our Facebook and Skype groups have proved to be extremely valuable spaces for teachers to connect, and build global friendships.
This presentation hosted several major project announcements, and marked the official launch of Global Classroom 2012-13.
Global Classroom 2011-12: Looking Forwards, Looking BackMichael Graffin
The slides and recording links for the Global Classroom Project (2011-12) Closing Webinar.
Our next project launches in late September 2012. Please visit our blog (http://theglobalclassroomproject.wordpress.com) for more information.
NCompass Live - March 18, 2020
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/
Library camps provide us with opportunities to make meaningful connections with teens during the months when they are most difficult to reach. In previous years, teen program attendance was extremely low, reaching less than fifty teens. It was time to make a change. Cedar Rapids Public Library offered free teen camps for ages 12 to 18 at both of our library locations and offsite with residential facilities, providing access by removing barriers financially and physically. Focused on creativity, teamwork, and fun, our project based learning camps covered subjects from writing to making escape rooms. Each camp is unique in its theme, but the implementation is similar for each. Teamwork and social skills layered with fun activities and productivity allow for dual purpose learning. While exploring and designing, teens were also learning communication skills, cooperation, and problem solving techniques. Library camps allowed teens freedom to create and share. Teens left camp feeling accomplished and excited about their work. Librarians left knowing teens achieved more than a digital trophy.
This session will focus on our findings from the past three years, how the camps were created and how we’ve adapted. We will discuss ways to scale the camps to best fit in your libraries. During the session, we will look at team building exercises the campers went through and the collaborative processes put in place to encourage teamwork. You will have a chance to view completed projects from the teens, including their board games and escape rooms. We will discuss the benefits of immersive learning, with teens leading as innovators. It’s time for teen programs to be more responsive and uncover teens’ potential as creators, inventors, and collaborators. Challenge traditional summer programming for teens!
Presenter: Molly Garrett, Librarian, Cedar Rapids (IA) Public Library.
Working in the Global Classroom: A Guide to Connecting & Collaborating Global...Michael Graffin
Presentation by Michael Graffin (@mgraffin) and Nigel Mitchell (@1nbm) at the Australian Computers in Education Conference, held in Perth Western Australia (October 1-3, 2012)
Global Classroom 2014-15 Stories and Project Launch #GlobalEd14Michael Graffin
The Global Classroom Project 2014-15 was launched on November 20 at the Global Education Conference.
Now entering our fourth year, we are proud to share our teachers' stories and projects.
The collated slides from our 2012-13 Closing Webinars. The sessions were attended by about 30 people from about 8 countries (over two webinars). See the slides for the links to the video / Blackboard Collaborate recordings
Schools and Libraries Together: Rethinking Learning SXSWedu 2015Amy Koester
These slides go with a core conversation facilitated by Vanessa Rosenbaum and myself at SXSWedu 2015 in Austin, TX. The talk included lots of group participating and discussion, and these slides are meant as a takeaway for the framing content of the session.
The Community Joins In: Library Makerspaces Justin Hoenke
Presentation given by:
Michelle Cooper, Henderson High School
Justin Hoenke, Chattanooga Public Library
Amy Koester, St. Charles City County Library District
At the 2013 Library Journal/School Library Journal event THE DIGITAL SHIFT: Reinventing Libraries
http://www.thedigitalshift.com/reinventinglibraries/program/
Global Education Conference Keynote 2013Julie Lindsay
Emerging technologies and increased access to networks is the catalyst to embed global awareness, interaction and understanding into all learning opportunities, but has this really happened yet? What positive social change needs to take place to fully realize the goal of a connected and 'flattened' environment that supports personalized learning?
Join Julie for 'How to Go Global' as she describes, and shows through current examples, how leadership, collaborative learning that leads to true co-creation, and building 'leagues' of designers, innovators and communities can take learning to the next level. Our future is important, let's articulate and plan to go global now.
STEAM & Día: Offering Informal Learning with a Mind Toward DiversityAmy Koester
These slides accompanied a September 2015 webinar on the topic of STEAM programming with intentional targeting of cultural, ethnic, and racial groups underserved in STEM.
What’s the best way to engage parents and families in flipped learning? Watch a roundtable discussion and get the perspective of parents, teachers and administrators on best practices in school-to-home communications in a flipped learning environment. Our in-depth discussion will include:
1. How strong school-to-home connections can improve the flipped learning experience for parents, teachers and students
2. Why you’ll need to connect with parents and families differently to support a flipped learning environment
3. Tips to connect with students and their families outside the classroom
4. What parents want to improve collaboration and communication between school and home
Speakers from St. Louis Schools (MI) and FLN
Come and learn about GiggleIT! See how we have successfully implemented the GiggleIT Project, an initiative of IASL, with Year 5 and 6 students as part of our library program at William Clarke College. Involvement in this new, exciting, online project based on humour has given the students a reason to read, research, discover, discuss, write, reflect, communicate with others and publish their work. Working closely with class teachers provides opportunities to assess, evaluate and modify the program as necessary. The extensive use of technology and the strong international focus is appealing to all students. They can’t wait to get to library lessons!
These slides accompanied a webinar for the Massachusetts Library System in March 2015 on the topic of making and the maker mentality in libraries serving youth.
Family and Community Engagement Webinar with ScholasticVanessa Avila
In this webinar we share information on our partnership with Scholastic under the Reading Action Program. We also discuss ways that your club can work with schools, families, and communities to make sure that every child has an opportunity to reach their full potential.
Special Guest Presenter: Jackie Harvey, Director of Community and District Wide Partnerships at Scholastic
Presentation given at the CILASS (Centre for Inquiry Based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences) IBL cafe, on 11 December 2007, at the University of Sheffield, UK. It begins by briefly introducing the virtual world, Second Life (SL), and indicating its value for professional and staff development. It goes on to define Inqury Based Learning (IBL) and links a SL initiative to IBL strategy. There is a brief description of this initiative, in which 1st year BSc Information Management students are inquiring into SL residents' information behaviour.
Global Classroom 2014-15 Stories and Project Launch #GlobalEd14Michael Graffin
The Global Classroom Project 2014-15 was launched on November 20 at the Global Education Conference.
Now entering our fourth year, we are proud to share our teachers' stories and projects.
The collated slides from our 2012-13 Closing Webinars. The sessions were attended by about 30 people from about 8 countries (over two webinars). See the slides for the links to the video / Blackboard Collaborate recordings
Schools and Libraries Together: Rethinking Learning SXSWedu 2015Amy Koester
These slides go with a core conversation facilitated by Vanessa Rosenbaum and myself at SXSWedu 2015 in Austin, TX. The talk included lots of group participating and discussion, and these slides are meant as a takeaway for the framing content of the session.
The Community Joins In: Library Makerspaces Justin Hoenke
Presentation given by:
Michelle Cooper, Henderson High School
Justin Hoenke, Chattanooga Public Library
Amy Koester, St. Charles City County Library District
At the 2013 Library Journal/School Library Journal event THE DIGITAL SHIFT: Reinventing Libraries
http://www.thedigitalshift.com/reinventinglibraries/program/
Global Education Conference Keynote 2013Julie Lindsay
Emerging technologies and increased access to networks is the catalyst to embed global awareness, interaction and understanding into all learning opportunities, but has this really happened yet? What positive social change needs to take place to fully realize the goal of a connected and 'flattened' environment that supports personalized learning?
Join Julie for 'How to Go Global' as she describes, and shows through current examples, how leadership, collaborative learning that leads to true co-creation, and building 'leagues' of designers, innovators and communities can take learning to the next level. Our future is important, let's articulate and plan to go global now.
STEAM & Día: Offering Informal Learning with a Mind Toward DiversityAmy Koester
These slides accompanied a September 2015 webinar on the topic of STEAM programming with intentional targeting of cultural, ethnic, and racial groups underserved in STEM.
What’s the best way to engage parents and families in flipped learning? Watch a roundtable discussion and get the perspective of parents, teachers and administrators on best practices in school-to-home communications in a flipped learning environment. Our in-depth discussion will include:
1. How strong school-to-home connections can improve the flipped learning experience for parents, teachers and students
2. Why you’ll need to connect with parents and families differently to support a flipped learning environment
3. Tips to connect with students and their families outside the classroom
4. What parents want to improve collaboration and communication between school and home
Speakers from St. Louis Schools (MI) and FLN
Come and learn about GiggleIT! See how we have successfully implemented the GiggleIT Project, an initiative of IASL, with Year 5 and 6 students as part of our library program at William Clarke College. Involvement in this new, exciting, online project based on humour has given the students a reason to read, research, discover, discuss, write, reflect, communicate with others and publish their work. Working closely with class teachers provides opportunities to assess, evaluate and modify the program as necessary. The extensive use of technology and the strong international focus is appealing to all students. They can’t wait to get to library lessons!
These slides accompanied a webinar for the Massachusetts Library System in March 2015 on the topic of making and the maker mentality in libraries serving youth.
Family and Community Engagement Webinar with ScholasticVanessa Avila
In this webinar we share information on our partnership with Scholastic under the Reading Action Program. We also discuss ways that your club can work with schools, families, and communities to make sure that every child has an opportunity to reach their full potential.
Special Guest Presenter: Jackie Harvey, Director of Community and District Wide Partnerships at Scholastic
Presentation given at the CILASS (Centre for Inquiry Based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences) IBL cafe, on 11 December 2007, at the University of Sheffield, UK. It begins by briefly introducing the virtual world, Second Life (SL), and indicating its value for professional and staff development. It goes on to define Inqury Based Learning (IBL) and links a SL initiative to IBL strategy. There is a brief description of this initiative, in which 1st year BSc Information Management students are inquiring into SL residents' information behaviour.
Designing Guest Experiences to Take Advantage of Social Media (NOV 2010)Dave Cobb
David Cobb, Sr. Creative Director from Thinkwell Group, led a discussion at IAAPA Expo 2010 about the burgeoning use of social media tools in themed-entertainment environments. Guest panelists included Susan Bonds (42 Entertainment), Greg Maletic (Wishing Stars app), Jeff Voris (Disney Parks & Resorts Online) & Gabe Zichermannn (Gamification Co.).
Web 2.0 & Active Learning: Creating a Digital-Rich ClassroomDouglas Strahler
This presentation for my Best Instructional Practices course examines Meg Ormiston's "Creating a Digital-Rich Classroom" and examines how Web 2.0 tools can create an active learning environment.
It is very easy for any English teacher, not just those at the start of their careers, to get really excited by new technology offerings only to find themselves overwhelmed down the track by the task of 'keeping up' with what they have found or made. In this presentation you will have a chance to hear about some tools that you can use in your classroom, with a focus on how to manage the workload these entail. Working with students in online environments will require you to consider ethical questions, in particular issues around student privacy, and this will also be addressed. If you are or would like to be more of a digital teacher, come along to hear how to keep having fun and save your sanity in the e-teaching world!
Designing Engaging Curriculum for Global Collaboration in the ClassroomJulie Lindsay
Designing Engaging Curriculum for Global Collaboration in the Classroom - Learning 2.012 Conference Leader, Beijing, China. October 2012.
Let’s Go Global! Let’s connect with the world! This session will immerse participants in the exciting world of global collaborative projects at all levels of learning. After reviewing essential steps to flatten the classroom the focus will be on design and management for effective and successful global projects using emerging technologies and Web 2.0 tools. Existing projects will be explored for essential design parameters and new projects and opportunities discovered. This session is for teachers at all levels of learning, curriculum coordinators, administrators and anyone interested in improving learning outcomes and engaging learners.
The Global Classroom Project - a F.L.A.T Action TalkMichael Graffin
Slides from my recorded webinar - October 30, 2012. for my FLAT Action Talk, hosted by Flat Classroom Projects. Recording Link is available on Slide 2.
Global ed conf web2where gail_sue 15 nov11Gail Casey
Your Name and Title: Gail Casey: Classroom teacher, IT Co-coordinator and PhD student
School or Organization Name: Geelong High School and Deakin University, Australia.
Co-Presenter Name(s): Sue Dunlop: Classroom teacher, eLearning Trainer and Leader, Geelong High School, Australia.
Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Australia
Language in Which You Will Present: English
Target Audience(s): Teacher Educators, School Leaders, Teachers of middle years and high school.
Short Session Description (one line): Web2Where: Online Social and Participatory Media for the Global Classroom
Full Session Description:
The use of social and participatory media around the world continues to grow and it has started to show some powerful signs for efficient and effective teaching and learning; but, teaching and learning can look very different in such environments. This session will look at two different perspectives on the use of such environments in the classroom and how they could be used as a global classroom. These will support concepts such as fostering digital citizenship, developing student global competency and other 21st century skills, designing projects for student motivation and creating authentic learning experiences as well as examining technical infrastructure and resources for the global arena.
Gail Casey has been exploring the use of social media, Web2.0 and global projects in her classes for many years. What does social networking and Web 2.0 have to offer the global classroom environment? Why use it? What does the average teacher need to know in order to effectively introduce their students to such an environment? What are the pitfalls? Gail will walk you through her online social and participatory media work from the last 18 months, which forms the core of her PhD data collection, showing a wide range of classroom examples leading to eleven global classroom projects. Gail is a classroom teacher and has taught in both public and private schools in Australia. Her passion for global classroom projects has taken her to South Korea during 2007 where she developed a range of global projects while teaching ESL for 12 months. She has been an ICT mentor and trainer for 15 years and is now finalising data collection for her PhD.
Sue Dunlop is not a major user or promoter of such online environments, coming from a maths and traditional IT background, and feels uncomfortable (inexperienced) using social media to such an extent. She greatly admires the way that Gail has worked with her classes to develop safe codes of conduct in these environments and is learning to slowly and selectively incorporate more into the classroom. As a consequence will provide a good balance to Gail’s discussion and perspectives; teacher educators and school leaders, in particular, will find this to be valuable. Sue has been responsible for all computer related infrastructure and training in the teaching and learning area at Gee
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
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http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
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1. Using ICT to
Collaborate on
a World Scale
Lisa Gallin
St Joseph’s Primary School
Waroona
Lisa Gallin 2012
2. Why Collaborate?
• Provides a wider, authentic audience.
• Learn from “experts”.
• Raise awareness of global issues.
• Highlight similarities and differences.
• Learn about culture, geography, climate and language.
• Sharing learning makes it more memorable and
meaningful.
• Make the most of some amazing tools
available to us.
• It’s how things are done in “real life”.
• It’s fun!
Lisa Gallin 2012
3. What are some ideas
for collaborating
with other classrooms?
Lisa Gallin 2012
4. Blogging
http://thesmarties2.blogspot.com
• Class and individual student blogs.
• Model and teach commenting skills.
• Articulate and show-off learning.
• Follow other blogs from around the
world to learn new things.
Lisa Gallin 2012
8. Pass the Blog
http://passtheblog.creativeblogs.net
• Project set up by a teacher in the
UK.
• 52 classes from around the world
take responsibility for a shared
blog for one week,
creating a year-long
project.
Lisa Gallin 2012
9. Lunch Project
http://lunchboxexchange.wikispaces.com
• Each class writes about what they
eat for lunch at school in a week
and the routines associated with it.
• Shared on a wiki with photos.
• Make comparisons.
• Mail favourite snacks.
Lisa Gallin 2012
11. Snail and the Whale
http://snailandwhaleproject.edublogs.org
• Project run by a New Zealand class.
• Based on a book.
• They send the toys around the world and
the host classes send them photos and
details of their adventures.
• Snail and Whale have
their own blog!
Lisa Gallin 2012
13. Flat Stanley
http://www.flatstanley.com
• Links to literacy.
• Connect with another class and
send Flat Stanley, writing about his
experiences with your class.
• Flat Stanley app available.
Lisa Gallin 2012
14. Monster Project
http://monstermayhem.wikispaces.com
• Authentic literacy task, focusing on
descriptions and interpreting text.
• Each child draws a monster and
describes it.
• Exchange the written descriptions with
the other class and they
draw the monsters based
on the writing.
• Share original drawings
and compare.
Lisa Gallin 2012
16. Postcard Project
http://leakeysblog.edublogs.org/the-postcard-project
• Leave a comment on this blog and
you’ll receive an email confirming
your access to the google doc with
the contact details of
schools in the project.
• Send some postcards
and wait for some to
be sent back!
Lisa Gallin 2012
17. Photo Challenge
• Class takes photos based on daily topics.
• Share via a blog or wiki.
• Fun way to practise taking photos.
• Interesting to compare interpretations of topics.
Lisa Gallin 2012
19. Sharing Culture
http://eastertraditions.wikispaces.com
• Invite other classes to share their
traditions and post on a wiki.
• Learn from the “experts” instead of from
a book, or website.
Romania
Ukraine
Lisa Gallin 2012
20. Collaborative
Story-Writing
http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/tale-
trail.html
• Six classes collaborated to write a
story together and published it on
their blogs.
• Made it into an audio book.
Lisa Gallin 2012
21. Other Ideas
• Virtual book club – Study the same book
at the same time as another class and
share your work.
• Practise LOTE –Find a class in Italy to
communicate with so students can
practise Italian.
• School Environments – Compare
the buildings and surrounds
of your schools.
Lisa Gallin 2012
22. • Share skills – Create videos, or write
explanations to teach others a skill (eg.
dance, recipe, etc).
• Native Animals – Research native
animals of Australia and communicate
with a class somewhere else so you can
teach each other about your local
animals.
• Weather – Record daily weather
for a few weeks and
compare the results to
a class in the Northern
Hemisphere.
Lisa Gallin 2012
23. Where do I find
other classrooms
to collaborate with?
Lisa Gallin 2012
24. Blogging
http://theedublogger.com/
check-out-these-class-
blogs
Lisa Gallin 2012
25. Skype in
the Classroom
http://education.skype.co
m
• Register on this website to join in a range of
projects.
• Classes organise to Skype each other to share
ideas, experiences or knowledge.
•Search by age, language, or project.
Lisa Gallin 2012
26. ePals
www.epals.com
• Create a class profile and connect with other
teachers and classrooms around the world.
• Ready made projects to participate in, or simply
contact a teacher to organise your own.
Lisa Gallin 2012
28. Projects by Jen
http://projectsbyjen.com
• A range of projects including Oreo
towers, weather and a Christmas
card exchange.
Lisa Gallin 2012
29. Twitter
https://twitter.com
• Create a professional twitter
network.
• Follow other teachers.
• Keep an eye out for projects to
join, or invite others
to join yours.
Lisa Gallin 2012
30. School Web Sites
• Email schools directly to ask if they
have any teachers interested in
collaborating.
Lisa Gallin 2012
32. Wikis
http://www.wikispaces.com/content/teacher
• An easy to use method of publishing on the
web.
• All teachers involved can have access to post
and edit, so it’s not all left to one person!
• Create pages for different
aspects of the project.
• Ad-free and cost free when
you sign up through the
teacher page.
Lisa Gallin 2012
33. Blogs
• Read and interact with other
bloggers by commenting on their
posts on a regular basis.
• Create blogs for specific purposes.
Eg. Use a blog as a platform to
publish video, audio, photographs
and text about books your
class reads.
Lisa Gallin 2012
34. VoiceThread
http://voicethread.com
• Free for a basic account.
• Upload a picture and have students leave
audio, or video comments.
• Embed in blogs or wikis and have other
classes comment too.
Lisa Gallin 2012
35. Skype
http://www.skype.com
• Collaborate via video chat.
• Time zones can be tricky!
• Plan the chat, or have questions
ready to ask.
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36. Email
• Create a class email account, or
have students use individual
accounts to correspond with e-pals.
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37. Google Docs
https://docs.google.com
• Allows documents to be shared, or
written collaboratively.
• Create a spreadsheet to record
weather observations.
• Create a text document
to jointly publish stories
or poems.
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38. Snail Mail
• Use it to send small gifts, shared
resources, letters, etc.
• Can help to make the other
children more “real”.
• It’s very exciting to receive
something in the mail!
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39. My Tips
• Communicate clearly with the other
teacher(s) and make your aims and
objectives clear.
• Set time frames, but be flexible.
• Communicate often.
• Follow up the project
with student reflection.
• Say thankyou!
• Aim for 1-2 projects
per year.
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40. Lisa Gallin
St Joseph’s, Waroona
gallin.lisa@cathednet.wa.edu.au
http://lisagallin.wikispaces.com
http://thesmarties2.blogspot.com
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